[Swift-devel] nearly, but not quite optimal performance on ranger from ranger under coasters

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Apr 29 19:28:38 CDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:15 -0500, Glen Hocky wrote:
> In the rare case where more coasters become active than you expected, 
> shouldn't you fill them up from the submitted queue?

Not if you've already hit the limit of jobs for that site.

>  or at least have 
> that as an option?

It doesn't matter. If, when you request N CPUs, you always get k*N CPUs,
there are going to be problems.

Obviously, this smells, and it should be fixed.





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